A last-minute budget showdown between Democrats and Republicans on Friday tripped up an effort to speed up Gen. James Mattis’ consideration as defense secretary, but appeared unlikely to derail the effort.

President-elect Donald Trump is assembling a national security team dominated by retired generals who have been heavily influenced by battlefield losses, the country's waning attention to the wars and an up-close view of a ruthless enemy.

U.S. Navy Lt. Osbaldo walked through all of the catapult spaces beneath the flight deck, shaking hands with every present member of his French crew, a morning routine he’s grown accustomed to since attaching to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

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He was stuck on a rooftop in Syria, bleeding and sore, shrapnel in his eye. He had been fighting for weeks. He was tired. Hungry. Scared. As Freeman Stevenson waited to be evacuated, he texted his mom: "I've been hit, but I'm alive." Nine time zones away, in Utah, his mom frantically typed back: "What happened?"

Retired Maj. Gen. James Gilman, former commander of the unit that oversees the U.S. Army's battlefield medical needs, will become the new head the National Institutes of Health's troubled clinical center, NIH announced Friday.

President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyber attacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia's meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday.

Jon Beesley, who has experience behind the stick of every other stealth aircraft, said the F-35 is different. He also does not find it “terribly surprising” that it has taken longer to develop because it’s being built for three service branches.

U.S. Navy Lt. Osbaldo walked through all of the catapult spaces beneath the flight deck, shaking hands with every present member of his French crew, a morning routine he’s grown accustomed to since attaching to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

A meeting on Saturday between Moscow and Washington is extremely important because it could avoid "massive destruction" if a plan for evacuating rebel fighters and civilians from war-ravaged Aleppo can be worked out, the U.N.'s special envoy to Syria said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won parliamentary approval Friday for ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plan to withdraw from the 12-nation trade pact.

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Jon Beesley, who has experience behind the stick of every other stealth aircraft, said the F-35 is different. He also does not find it “terribly surprising” that it has taken longer to develop because it’s being built for three service branches.

U.S. Navy Lt. Osbaldo walked through all of the catapult spaces beneath the flight deck, shaking hands with every present member of his French crew, a morning routine he’s grown accustomed to since attaching to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

A meeting on Saturday between Moscow and Washington is extremely important because it could avoid "massive destruction" if a plan for evacuating rebel fighters and civilians from war-ravaged Aleppo can be worked out, the U.N.'s special envoy to Syria said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won parliamentary approval Friday for ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plan to withdraw from the 12-nation trade pact.

Army-Navy is America's Game. That's the way Jeff Monken sees it, and he brings a solid argument to back up the assertion. Now in his third season as Army's head coach, Monken previously spent six years as an assistant at Navy. Having been an integral part of the annual duel between the esteemed service academies, Monken considers it to be the epitome of college football.

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Army-Navy is America's Game. That's the way Jeff Monken sees it, and he brings a solid argument to back up the assertion. Now in his third season as Army's head coach, Monken previously spent six years as an assistant at Navy. Having been an integral part of the annual duel between the esteemed service academies, Monken considers it to be the epitome of college football.